DO YOU PAY THE ONE??? EDH Gameplay 115 - Gilanra & Brinelin VS Ixhel VS Laelia VS Oloro

Deck Strategies

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  Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

  A life gain control deck that uses enchantments and card draw engines to accumulate incremental advantages, aiming to outlast opponents by controlling the board and slowly draining life with cards like Blind Obedience.

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  Laelia, the Blade Reforged

  An aggressive tribal deck that grows its commander through combat damage and top-deck manipulation, generating mana and card advantage with damage triggers and spectacle spells to overwhelm opponents quickly.

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  Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa

  A poison counters themed Infect deck that applies incremental poison damage through creatures and disruption spells, using life payments to protect key pieces and maintain pressure.

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  Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood & Brinelin, the Moon Kraken

  A big mana ramp deck that leverages land and spell recursion with a companion synergetic with ramp, focusing on casting impactful spells and controlling the board with value creatures and removal.

Gameplay Insights

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  Laelia’s repeated combat damage triggers to grow her commander and the use of spectacle spells like Light Up the Stage allowed her to generate large amounts of mana quickly, enabling explosive turns.

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  Oloro’s control with Blind Obedience and preventing card draw via Rustic Study taxes helped slow down opponents’ advances and maintain his life gain engine.

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  Ben’s use of Beasts Within to destroy key enchantments and replace them with tokens demonstrated efficient removal to disrupt opponents’ board states while maintaining tempo.

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  Tony’s activation of Ixhel’s abilities to protect the commander by paying life and using Infect creatures to steadily apply poison counters was a key defensive and offensive tactic.

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  The sequence of casting Mana Geyser boosted Laelia’s mana pool drastically, enabling a cascade of powerful spells and an overloaded Vandalblast to clear opposing artifacts, shifting the board state heavily in her favor.

Notable Cards

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  Blind Obedience

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  Light Up the Stage

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  Mana Geyser

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  Outpost Siege

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  Roiling Regrowth

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  Mortify

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  Crested Sunmare

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  Dire Fleet Daredevil

Summary

The game opened with Oloro utilizing his life gain abilities and card draw engines such as Rustic Study, steadily building up resources while controlling the board with enchantments like Blind Obedience. Laelia aggressively applied pressure with repeated combat damage, growing larger through her ability and leveraging spells like Light Up the Stage and Soul Ring to generate mana and card advantage. Ben, piloting Gilanra and Brinelin, focused on ramp and big mana plays, casting spells like Roiling Regrowth and Beasts Within to maintain board presence and disrupt opponents. Tony, on Ixhel, leaned into a poison counters strategy, utilizing Infect creatures and disruption spells like Mortify and Outbreak to weaken opponents while protecting his commander with life payments to maintain board presence.